Doctrine, Worship, ami Discipline (Lond. 1772, 4to) : A
Letter to the Bishop of Durham, contaitiiny some Obser- vations on the Climate of Russia, etc. (Lond. 1778, 4to); etc. See Geiit. Mayazine, Ivii and lix ; Chalmers, Gen. Bioy. Dictionary ; Allibone, Dictionary of Enylish and American Authors, ii, 1031.
King, John L., a Presbj'terian minister, was bom in Indiana Feb. 1, 1835; was educated at Knox College, Galesburg, 111., and studied divinity in Lane Theological Seminary, Ohio ; was licensed and ordained at Cincin- nati in 1861, and then assumed the pastorate at Wil- liamsport, Indiana ; afterwards labored as a missionary among the saikirs at Detroit, Michigan, and finally went to Idaho and Colorado Territories. He died near Den- ver, Nov. 10, 1866. jNlr. King was a man of ripe schol- arly attainments and fine abilities, earnestly devoted es- pecially to the work of elementary religious teaching. — Wilson, Presb. Historical Almanac, 1867.
King, Peter, lord chancellor of England, was bom at Exeter, Devonshire, in 1669 ; went to Holland, and studied at the university at Leydcn, and upon his re- tiu-n to England studied law at Lincohi's Inn, and be- came member of Parliament in 1699. In 1708 he was appointed recorder of London, and knighted. At the accession of George I he was made lord chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and soon after promoted to the peerage as lord King, baron of Ockham. He was made lord chancellor in 1725, but does not seem to have been as successful in that position as was expected. He died in 1733. He was well versed in both ecclesiastical historj' and the law. His principal works are, A n Enqui- ry into the Constitution, Discipline, Unity, and Woi'ihip of the P7-i?nitiv€ Church, etc. [Anon.] (Lond. 1712, 8vo) : in this, his first publication, he advocated, with much abil- ity and learning, the right of Protestant dissenters from episcopacy to be comprehended in the scheme of the national establishment. The work excited much atten- tion, and provoked much discussion, especially wlicn the second edition was issued (1713). I'romincnt among the opponents was the nonjiuing Sclater, who wrote an Answer to it. King himself has been said to have af- tenvards altered his opinion on the subject : — The His- tory of the Ajjostles' Creed, with critical Observations on its several A}-ticles [Anon.] (London, 1702,8vo) — a work dis|)laying extraordinary learning and judgment, and highly commended by the ablest critics, among others by IMosheim. See Gentleman's Mayazine, vol. Ixii and Ixx ; Chalmers, General Bioy. Dictionary ; Lord Camp- bell, Lives of Lords Chancellors; Allibone, Diet, of Eng- lish and American A uthors, s. v. (J. II. W.)
King, Richard, an English theologian, was bom at Bristol in 1749; studied at the University of Oxford, and became successively rector of Steeple, Blorden, and of Worthing. He died in 1810. King wrote iMters from A brakam Plymley to his Brother Peter on the Cath- olic Question (Lond. 1S'03, 8vo), which created some sen- sation -.—On the lii.<iiiriilinii oj'thr Scrijitiires (1805, 8vo) : —On the AUiiiuc' lj(tir,ni Church and State (1807,8vo), His wife, Frances Elizabeth Bernard, vTote Female Scripture Bioyraphy (12th edit. London, 1840, 12mo): — The Benefits of the Christian Temper; etc. See Gent, Mayazine (1810); Rose, A'c-w Bioyraphical Dictionary, s. V.
King, Thomas Starr, a Unitarian minister, was born in New York Doc. 16, 1824. His father. Rev. T. F. King, was a Universalist clergyman of very decided ability, but died in the prime of life, and Thomas, at
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the age of twelve years, while fitting to enter Harvard College, found himself the principal support of a large family. He managed, however, successfully to complete his studies, and in September, 1845, preached his first sermon in Woburn, Mass. The next year he was set- tled over his father's former charge in Charlestown, •whence he was called in 1848 to the HoUis Street Uni- tarian Church, Boston, where he preached with great acceptance and a constantly increasing reputation till 18G0, when he accepted the call of the Unitarian Cluirch in San Francisco to become their pastor. He entered upon his new duties with a zeal and energy which won the hearts of the people, and ere long he was as thor- oughly identified with California interests as if his whole life had been spent there. His congregation in- creased in numbers and power with great rapidity ; but he was a preacher for the whole city and state, and crowds hung upon his elotiuent utterances, and his bold, earnest words. At the outbreak of our late civil war. King, finding California in a hesitating position, flung himself into the breach, and by his eloquence and ear- nestness saved the state ; and when the sanitary com- mission was organized, he first set in motion, and through the next three years pushed forward, the efforts in be- half of the sick and wounded sokliers. His labors in this cause, added to his pastoral duties, were too severe for his strength, and he died ]March 4, 18G4, after a very brief illness. Mr. King published several discoiurses and addresses, etc. — Appleton, New American Cyclopcedia, 1865, p. 4G8.
King, William, (1), archbishop of Dublin, a learn- ed divine and metaphysician, was born at Antrim, prov- ince of Ulster, Ireland, May 1, 1G50. He studied at Trinity College, UubUn, entered the Church in 1G74, and became chaplain to Parker, archbishop of Tuam. The latter being translated to tlie archbishopric of Dublin in 167'J, King became chancellor of St. Patrick and St. Marburgh, Dublin. Ireland was then a prey to violent religious controversies, which served also as a cloak for political dissensions. King wrote several pamphlets against Peter Manby, dean of Londonderry, who had embraced Roman Catholicism. In 1G88 he was made dean of St. Patrick. The Revolution breaking out soon after, and James II having taken refuge in Ireland, King was twice sent to the Tower of Dublin as a partisan of the insurgents. He defended his opinions in a work entitled The State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King Jameses Government (3d and best ed. Lond. 1692, 8vo), which gave rise to a controversy between him and Charles Leslie, a partisan of the fallen mon- arch. In 1691 King was made bisliop of Derry, and applied himself with much zeal to the task of bringing back into the Church the dissenters of his diocese. He finally became archbishop of Dublin in 1702, was ap- pointed one of the lords justices of Ireland in 1717, and again in 1721 and 1723, and died at Dublin May 8, 1729. He was through life held in high esteem as a man, as well as in his character of a prelate and writer on the- ology. His principal work in that line is the De Origine Mali (DuWin, 1702, 4to ; Lond. 1702, 8vo). " The object of this work is to show how all the several kinds of evil •with which the world aljounds are consistent with the goodness of God, and may be accounted for without the supposition of an evil principle." It was attacked by Baj'le and also by Leibnitz : by the former for the charges of Manichasism made against him, and by the latter because King had taken him to task for his opti- mism. King, however, during his life made no reply, but he left among his papers notes of answers to their arguments, and these were given to the world after his death by Dr. Edmund Law, bishop of Carlisle, together •with a translation of the treatise itself (Camb. 1758, 8 vo). In 1709 he published a sermon on Divine Predestination and Foreknowledge consistent icith the Freedom of Man's Will, preached before the House of Peers. In this work he advanced a doctrine concerning the moral attributes of God as being different from the moral quaUties of the